Life, 1924-06-05 · page 42 of 48
Life — June 5, 1924 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with satirical content typical of *Life* magazine's humor. **The main cartoon** appears to be "A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Restaurant Goers," which lists absurd "aims" mocking common dining annoyances of the era: hat-check services losing hats, Lithuanian waiters taking orders in French, waiters disappearing when summoned, noisy jazz bands, and overpriced caviar. The satire targets restaurant pretension and poor service—complaints that would resonate with early 20th-century diners. **"It Sometimes Happens"** is a morality tale about young Smith, hired as an office boy, who succeeds by taking a company president's advice: work hard, use your brain, show up early. He becomes president—a conventional success story, likely mocking either naive optimism or serving as earnest inspirational fare. The remainder consists of period advertisements for garden hoses, brushes, malted milk, and a resort—standard magazine filler with no satirical content visible.
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Melons are 90% Water but the other tenth is a miracle of fragrance and or and texture, the most wus product of Mother rth and Father Sunshine. give the melon its 90% of water in the right) wa you must have a good gar- den hose and know how to use it correctly. The shortest cut is to send 10 cents for our booklet “Making | the Garden Grow” written by a prominent horticul- turist and printed by us for our friends the gardeners, Thousands of gardeners are our having je our quaint through GOOD LUCK G Tose. GOOD LUCK Garden Hose is a strong, lightweight. medium pris ed hose for ge al use around lawn. garden and garage, GOOD LUCK is one of our three famous brands of §<ths hose. other two are BULL DOG, the strong- est and longest-lived “hose on. the market, and MILO, « cord hose which will not kink. In sending the book we will take the lib enclosing some of our lite er about the choice and care of garden hose. BOSTON WOVEN HOSE & RUBBER COMPANY 153 Portland St., Cambridge, Mass. LIFE It Sometimes Happens for Scoffers) out of high sche« employ Applejack and Company as a € boy of private matters I have d him loath t I've learned by shrewd inquiry that they id him eight a week genial man, on Smith's there Addressed the lad judicially volving chair boy.” with wedded nevolently. said, would get ahead. “Be carly at y work each day; if need be, stay Took, unsop 1 truth. He tried to do exact the pres nt that that must ahead. He was at the office early and. when needful, stayed there late; No task he found too small for him, no labor was to ut He used the brains God gave him—and though progress did seem slow To-day he is \ pple jack & Co. 4 A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Restaurant Goers Its Aims To restore your hat in more or | the same condition as when you check it. To prohibit all Lithuania: waiters from taking the order French To punish very, very severely. the waiter whom you send for a fork and who disappears forever : Vall patrons with m, SO as not to inter the drummer or saxophone player f more thar To supply car trumpets to the patrons of those restaurants where jazz is in- dulged in. To set a limit on the price of caviar To translate all Czecho-Slovak dishes on the menu, on always p bask gare at Virginia Hot Springs where summer temperature averages 64 N f' Continual breezes due to the Alleghany gaps and an elevation of 2500 ft. produce a delightful, cool climate —with no humidity. The HOMESTEAD Christian S Andersen, Resident Mgr. Hot Springs Virginia Special summer rates on request. A Sign of the Times It tells what Brush users are buying. Whiting-Adams Brushes are for \ sale everywhere. Send forlllustrated Literature JOHN L. ware: ih La ADAMS CO. Brush Man Fe oenavaare and the Largest in the World canara, fe Horlicks aa e u \, _Malted Milk 1 . For Infants, Children, Invalids, the Aged, etc. Avoid Imitations comicbooks.com